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An ancient and hallowed tradition. I'm fairly sure that's how the French originally assigned gender to their language's words. Pulled a word out of a hat, took a pint, put on the blindfold, took a spin, and then took a throw. Repeated until all words had a gender assignment or everyone had died of alcohol poisoning and/or dart wounds. In the case of the latter, they lured another bunch in with free booze until the project was complete.

I... have no idea where Provo is. Huh.

And yeah MSH, just you wait. They'll come east. And then prompt go north and ignore the middle/south part of it.

Meeting Socrates would probably be a combination of awesome, annoying, and terrifying.

Imagine a homeless military veteran walking up to you as you go down the street and asking, "What is love?"

Then following you around and bugging you until you answer. That's basically Socrates, the homeless vet known as the Gadfly of Athens.

I think a more obviously gender related issue in academics is title issues. Female doctors get called "Mrs" constantly. I know a couple who have to stress this issue at the beginning of every year. I've never seen a male professor have that issue.

Apropos to nothing, but I've yet to meet someone with a PHD that actually stated they preferred to be referred to with the doctor honorific. Bar none, they've all preferred either no title at all or their first name. This has been true for both males and females with the credentials for it, so far. Obviously limited sample size, but... still. There's been a couple dozen or so.

Pretty much. The souls in Paradiso are all pure of sinful desire, i.e. all they want to do is sing praises to god for the rest of time.

Can you tell it was a different time?

Heh. Yeah, that was one of the things that's always bothered me about the Christian afterlife myth. Apparently if you do good and get into heaven, God rewards you by stripping part of your soul away so that you're no longer capable of feeling anything but love for Him. No pain, or the capacity to feel pain, no negative emotions or the capacity for negative emotions, no empathy with those under the effect of either or the capacity to feel such empathy, etc., so forth, so on. From what I remember of the wording it simply entails that upon being assimilated into heaven you're no longer capable, at all, of experiencing evil in any form.

At the very least in hell you remain something still approaching human. To reach heaven is to be reduced to a one-dimensional shadow of what you once were. That's pretty damn terrifying for the supposed Good End.

And I suddenly find myself curious.

Don't remember when I stopped reading WoT books, eh. Think I got through the first five or six?

I've actually got AI War open right now, heh. Recently found out you can run it without steam on, which is... nice. More resources for the CPU god. If it's the same IP I can just hop right in, heh. Will kick steam on, just a mo'.

Ahaha, I had mentioned how violently enraged I was going to become when people started using the death of children to push their political agendas! Time to ignore the thread for a day or two, whee!